They talk of matins and even-song; they are full of vestments, and have seen 'such lovely things' in that line.

At Christmas and Easter they are mainly instrumental in decorating the interior till it becomes perfectly gaudy with colour, and the old folk mutter and shake their heads.

Their devotion in getting hothouse flowers is quite touching.

One is naturally inclined to look with a liberal eye upon what is capable of a good construction.

But is all this quite spontaneous?
Has the new curate nothing at all to do with it?
Is it not considered rather the correct thing to be 'High' in views, and even to manifest an Ultramontane tendency?
There is a rather too evident determination to go to the extreme--the girls are clearly bent upon thrusting themselves to the very front of the parish, so that no one shall be talked of but the Misses ----.